What to understand about the empty folders found at Mar-a-Lago
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🗓️ 3 September 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you all for being here tonight. Happy holiday weekend again. There is no such thing as the summer Friday anymore. |
| 0:07.5 | So we're just going to jump right in over 10,000 documents. That is the number of documents that the FBI retrieved from |
| 0:15.6 | Trump's Beach Club in August alone. Today we got a clear picture for the first |
| 0:20.6 | time of the sheer volume of documents that traveled |
| 0:23.4 | nearly 1,000 miles from the White House to Trump's Palm Beach Club when a |
| 0:28.5 | federal judge unsealed a previously unseen and detailed inventory of what the FBI retrieved during its search last month. |
| 0:35.5 | As a reminder here, Trump's team wanted this to come out and the Justice Department didn't oppose |
| 0:40.6 | it. |
| 0:41.8 | As we continue to await a decision from the judge as to |
| 0:44.5 | whether or not she'll grant Trump's request for a third-party independent |
| 0:48.1 | review, that special master, there are two big headlines emerging from |
| 0:52.0 | today's filing. |
| 0:53.2 | The first, again, is over 10,000 documents |
| 0:56.4 | were found at Maralago. |
| 0:58.5 | That is Bigly. |
| 1:01.0 | The second major headline is that the FBI found 48 empty folders marked classified. |
| 1:07.1 | And 42 more empty folders marked Return to Staff Secretary slash military aid. |
| 1:13.2 | Doing the math here, that is 90 folders |
| 1:15.4 | that were empty and almost certainly |
| 1:17.1 | had some important stuff in them. |
| 1:19.4 | So the first question here is, |
| 1:20.9 | why were they empty? Where are the documents that belong in |
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